Improvement in devices for moving railway-carriages



C. ANDERSON.

Devices for Moving Railway Carriages.

Patented Aug 4, i874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, OF PAXTON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR MOVING RAILWAY-CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,736, dated August4, 1874 application filed January 24, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, ofPaxton, in the county of Ford and State of Illinois, have invented a newand Improved (Jar-Movcr, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a little frame, preferably of metal, adapted tobe readily connected, by hooks, clips, or other equivalent devices,temporarily to a car, and having a crank-shaft, reducing-gears, and achain-wheel mounted in it, with a chain to work on the chain-wheel, andhaving a griper at one end, to be carried along the rail in advance ofthe car, and attached for holding fast while the car is drawn along bywinding the chainwheel, which, by holding fast to the chain as it rollsalong it, pulls the car readily. to the point where the chain isfastened to the rail. The little frame also carries a box below thechain-wheel, into which the slack chain delivered from the chain-wheelfalls to be carried along, and prevented from dragging under the car.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap, andpracticable apparatus for moving heavy cars short distances byhandpower.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved car-mover; and Fig. 2 is aplan View of it; also a short piece of a rail, showing the manner ofconnecting the chain to it.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a small frame made of metal bars, and having at one end asmall T-head, B, for attaching to the end of a car, say by eye-studs orclips O, or any other suitable means, so that the frame will be held uphorizontally by the shoulder D. E is a chainwheel on said frame, onwhich a large chain, F, having a griper for fastening it to the rail tobe pulled, to pull the car by the turning of the wheel, for which thelarge reducing-wheel H, pinion I, and the cranks J are provided. Thechain-wheel is designed to gear with the shaft of wheel H by a clutch,so that it can readily be thrown out of gear when the chain is to bedrawn outfrom the machine to avoid turning these wheels and cranks, andsave the labor. L is a pocket suspended from the frame where the chainis delivered to receive the slack, and hold it ofl' the ground.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaiin as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The car-moving machine, comprising the frame A,chain-wheel E, chain F, griper Gr, wheels H I, and the hand-cranks,combined and adapted for connection to a car, substantially asspecified.

2. The combination, with the carmoving machine, of the chain-pocket L,substantially as specified.

CHRISTIAN ANDERSON. Witnesses:

JAMES FARRELL, MILTON H. CLOUD.

